Senior Cybersecurity Firmware Engineer (Automotive SoCs)

indie.inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

indie Semiconductor is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Firmware Engineer to lead the security architecture and secure firmware for our SoCs used in automotive and industrial applications. You will collaborate with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to reduce risk and drive new security features in products shipped at scale.

The role requires hands-on threat modeling, MISRA guidelines, embedded RTOS experience, cryptography, and hardware roots of trust; strong English communication; and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or related technical field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in product security, cybersecurity firmware, or cybersecurity research, including hands-on work with embedded firmware codebases.
• Strong C programming and debugging skills in RTOS environments.
• Familiarity with applied cryptography – secure boot, code signing, key derivation and management – with threat modeling and mitigation techniques.
• Hands-on experience with hardware security building blocks: roots of trust, HSMs or crypto accelerators, secure key storage, fuse/OTP provisioning in SoCs or ASICs.
• Working knowledge of Python for scripting and tooling, and hands-on experience with OpenSSL.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, documentation, and presentation skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test the cybersecurity architecture of indie’s firmware.
• Perform security threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) of firmware and embedded subsystems across indie’s product lines.
• Convert analysis findings into written, testable security requirements, and review designs and implementations against them.
• Develop and maintain embedded applications on SoCs.
• Support system bring-up and debug customer systems and issues.
• Respond to customer cybersecurity requirements and questionnaires, and author cybersecurity architecture documents and application notes.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure compliance with automotive software quality standards, including MISRA guidelines.

Skills

C programming

RTOS debugging

Threat modeling

Python scripting

OpenSSL usage

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

OpenSSL

Job description

indie Semiconductor is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Firmware Engineer to lead the security architecture and secure firmware for our SoCs used in automotive and industrial applications. You will collaborate with firmware, hardware, and architecture teams to reduce risk and drive new security features in products shipped at scale.

The role requires hands-on threat modeling, MISRA guidelines, embedded RTOS experience, cryptography, and hardware roots of trust; strong English communication; and